To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us]… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
![“In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/noam-chomsky-42_america_in-fact-if-you-look-at-reagan-s-global-w_3214393.jpg)
